xfce desktop icons: single click possible?

[Stephan Arts]

On 2/8/07, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> > On 2/8/2007 7:34 AM, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
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> >> However, I dislike that I need to doubleclick on a XFCE desktop icon in
> >> order to activate it. From KDE I am used to single click and even on
> >> window$ I always configure the desktop to work on single click.
> >>
> >> Is there a possibility to do this in XFCE? How can I do it?
> >
> > Nope.
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> >       -brian
> >
> Thanks, Brian,
>
> while nope is basically ok for me, I wonder why the click-behaviour of
> xfce is so inconsistent.
>
> Ex. in Thunar, which I find great btw, you can configure oneclick
> activation,
>
> One click on the panel will activate the relevant menue or application,
> One click in the app menu activates the application that is clicked
> once, but on the desktop, two clicks are needed.
>
> I am in no way saying that one click is better, but if one click is an
> option at any edge, why is it not useable as an option on the desktop?

This answer i know. Basically, in 4.4 the desktop-icons are not yet
handled by thunar completely, instead they are made by xfdesktop with
the help of the thunar libs.

This means that there are two different implementation at work. One
supporting this feature and anotherone not doing this.

Regards,

Stephan